All About Love: The Deluxe Collector's Edition: New Visions

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Now available in a special hardcover Deluxe Collectors Edition featuring beautiful new packaging, including cloth over board one-piece case with gifty trim, case stamping with red foil, red-colored endpapers, red sprayed edges, and sewn-in red ribbon bookmark!

A New York Times bestseller and enduring classic, All About Love is the acclaimed first volume in feminist icon bell hooks' "Love Song to the Nation" trilogy.All About Love reveals what causes a polarized society, and how to heal the divisions that cause suffering. Here is the truth about love, and inspiration to help us instill caring, compassion, and strength in our homes, schools, and workplaces.

The word love is most often defined as a noun, yet we would all love better if we used it as a verb, writes bell hooks as she comes out fighting and on fire inAll About Love. Here, at her most provocative and intensely personal,renowned scholar, cultural critic, and feminist bell hooks offers a proactive new ethic for a society bereft with lovelessnessnot the lack of romance, but the lack of care, compassion, and unity. People are divided, she declares, by societys failure to provide a model for learning to love.

Asbellhooksuses her incisive mind to explore the question What is love her answers strike at both the mind and heart. Razing the cultural paradigm that the ideal love is infused with sex and desire, she provides a new path to love that is sacred, redemptive, and healing for individuals and for a nation. TheUtne Readerdeclared bell hooks one of the 100 Visionaries Who Can Change Your Life.All About Loveis a powerful, timely affirmation of just how profoundly her revelations can change hearts and minds for the better.

Each offering from bell hooks is a major event, as she has so much to give us.Maya Angelou

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bell hookswas an influential cultural critic, feminist theorist, and writer. Celebrated as one of Americas leading public intellectuals, she was a charismatic speaker and writer who taught and lectured around the world. Previously a professor in the English departments at Yale University and Oberlin College, hooks was the author of more than 17 books, including the New York Times bestsellerAll About Love: New Visions; Salvation: Black People and Love; Communion: the Female Search for Love, as well as the landmark memoirBone Black: Memories of Girlhood.